Lee-san Onee-san: YAY my first story! I would like to thank hibiyuru for helping me finish this chapter. THANK YOU! (waves arms up and down like a crazed fan girl)

Hibiyuru: Whatever…

LsOs: …

The so-called mission...

Neji POV:

Today was like any other day. I arose from my slumber; still feeling tired, and rubbed my eyes. As the sunlight poured into my room, I slowly got up and sat on my bed. I looked down at the floor trying to adjust my eyes, still blurred from the lack of sleep. My stomach started to rumble, when was it the last time I ate?

I hauled my self off my bed, slotted my feet into my slippers which had little pictures of sheep on them, their so cute… I stopped dead in my tracks and shuddered at the thought of ever saying that word. 'Ewwwwwww….' I pushed the thought into the back of my mind and made my way to the kitchen.

I passed Hanabi on the way. She was twelve now and had grown to be quite the ninja, with the help of my training here and there.

'Ohayo, Hanabi-san.' I greeted her.

She didn't reply. All her interest seemed to be on her new forehead protector she got last week and she didn't even notice Neji.

'Humph, she's cant even say hello to me, I thought. 'Is it because I'm from the Branch House? And the Main house can't even talk to us. No. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

We're soooooo superior…' I whined sarcastically.

'Neji nii-san.' called out a voice which snapped me out f my deep thoughts (LsOs: yeah, right. Neji: Shut up). 'Are you ok?' I turned around to see it was Hinata staring at me with a worried look in her eyes. Hinata didn't really look any different from when she was twelve except that now she had grown a couple of inches and she had become a lot more confident.

'Why?' I asked her.

'You were...muttering to your self about the Main house and I was...um... wondering if you were ok.'

I felt my cheeks slightly warm up. I had grown to like Hinata over the years after the chunin fight, and I felt like I could tell her anything, but still, she was in the

Main House... but when I look into her eyes I don't think about the problems between are two families, I just think of how I am the eldest, and I have to look after her...

Oh god, I'm starting to lose my cool. I straighten up and reassure her that I'm ok. She smiles, then gasps and mutters something about Kiba and how she is late.

'I've got to go!'

'You have a date with Kiba again.' I tease her.

Her face became extremely flushed. She and Kiba have been going out for a while now, he annoys me sometimes, but he makes Hinata happy, and that's good enough for me.

'Bye.' she waves as she disappears down the hall.

As soon as I hear her footsteps fade away into the distance, I continue on my journey to the kitchen once again. 'Ok, she does acknowledge me, even though she is from the Main House...' I said out loud'…maybe I'm getting a bit too paranoid about the Main house; I mean I have become a jounin. That must mean something…'

My sentence was cut short, for there was someone in my kitchen, sitting on one of the bar stools, his head embedded in their arms which were sprawled across the cool granite counter top. His ebony hair poked out the top of his arm, which was scraped back into a spiky ponytail. Only one ninja had that hairdo and had the nerve to sleep on the job…

'Shikamaru…' I mumbled. 'Lazy bum…how dare he sleep in my kitchen…'

I've only been a jounin for a month now, but Shika, he's been one since he was twelve. HOW! I'm friggin' one year older than him! I screamed in my head.

I could feel my whole entire body shake with anger, my palms started to sweat. I wanted to lash out at something, at him, so I grabbed the nearest object, which happened to be a bowl of pancake mix. Hinata must have left it out, she was in such a rush… and I through it at the lazy ninja. The bowl smacked right into Shika's head, the mix splayed all over the place, but mostly all in his hair.

I felt the corners of my mouth tug upwards into one of my smirks. Heh, heh, heh… The dopey ninja stirred slightly. He lifted up his hand and rubbed his head.

'Kuso…' I hear him mumble. He slowly lifted himself from the counter. Shikamaru didn't seem to realise for a brief second that I was in the kitchen. He seemed to be more interested on the large lump on his head. 'Owwww… what the hell…' He removed his hand slowly from the back of his head. 'Am I bleeding? My hands wet…' He said out loud with a note of panic in his voice. He slowly removed his hand from his head, and brought it in front of his face to see that it covered not in blood but in a gooey substance.

'O.o WTH!' He brought his hand slowly towards his mouth and licked to unknown substance from his hand. 'Mmmm, Hinata's famous pancake mix. But why is it on my head?' He raised his head from his hand, to see me staring write back at him. My smile disappeared instantly. Shika stumbled backwards slightly. 'Neji? Do you know what happened?'

Crap. What am I gonna say. I briefly scanned the kitchen for anything to blame it on, but noting, so I looked down at the floor for some inspiration, when I spotted one of Hanabi's hair bands.

'Hanabi… err was passing me the pancake mix when she…slipped and accidentally spilt it all over you, and since she has this BIG…HUGE….um….CRUSH on…YOU, err… she ran away in embarrassment! Yeh, that's what she did.' I lied.

There was a silence, which seemed to go on forever. I didn't dare look up at his face.

He doesn't believe me! I cried in my head. He's gonna tell the Hokage, then she'll demote me for attacking him, and then I'll never be able to make a name for the Branch family…and then I'll have to run away and forget my life as a ninja and…and I'll have to become one of those 'runaway carnival kids', I don't like clown's…

My little nightmare was cut short by the sound of a soft chuckling. I raised my head to look at the reaction of Shika. But to my amazement, a small smile had crawled across his face.

He sighed 'Women, so troublesome sometimes, neh?'

I nodded my head. Ha, he believed me…baka. "So what exactly do you want then?"

"Tsunade-sama has a mission for you; she claims that it's a very important mission that only you can help her with."

So I was out side of the Hokage's office. I knocked on the door. 'Come in!' I heard. I pushed the door open. The Hokage was sitting at her desk, knocking back a bottle of sake, as usual! All that booze was starting to make her look fat.

"Hello Neji" she said in a deadly sweet voice. Oh god, was she drunk again? I shuddered. The memory of the last office party where she got drunk, and what she did resonated in my mind. I've seen to many things….

I pushed down the images of that night and walked up to the desk. "Ohayo Tsunade-sama, I hear you have a special mission for me."

"Yes follow me,' she walked over to her desk, and picked up a white book. She flipped through the pages, and then stopped on the page with a picture of me on it. Why?

'Here I have a chart of your behavioural patterns, I have kept these bar charts ever since I can remember, and they reflect the levels of you're abilities depending on what mood you're in. Recently your mood has been running low, so this reflects on your performance. I can no longer give you happy pills as they will affect your body and stamina.'

'Happy pill? What happy pills?' I shouted.

'The ones which I have been putting in your water canteen you take on every mission.' She smiled.

O.o

'As the Hokage of Leaf Village' she continued 'I will not allow behaviour like your own run down you're team mates therefore I will be putting you in a 'speak you're mind' classes. You will go to a special clinic for two weeks where you will sort out all your problems. If you do not cooperate I will have to suspend you from any missions for three months!'

Uh… I didn't know what to say, that cow was feeding me happy pill so I could go on my missions? She's going down. "Phst, fine, I'll go, but who else will be going because I know I'm not the only one with problems."

"Oh you know…People." She was being vague. Why?

LsOs: YAY! I'm FINISHSD!

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Nej: Baka...

LsOs: (glare) Hmph. Anyway, Ja ne